Status Updates From The Republic

What if I read this for the third time BUT this time I got to teach it in FULL? What then huh

so much cattiness on display

Okay so pretty much the first example of socialism / communism.

socrates wants to take all the fun out of greek myth smh 🙄

im so sick of this

It makes me mad we have always had these same problems. That worthy solutions have been suggested eons ago, but never put to test.

To Book III; Shelved for now

Book II is a lot better than Book I, in my opinion

It’s so over

Put in the wrong number last time meant to be 80%

Don’t like so far

Reading for POT2002 Intro to Political Theory

Book 1 read. Do not like so far

This feels performative but I promise it’s not

67

Yapping on

Just reading through books 1 & 2 for now. Almost done with book 1

75 hard reading #growth #politics

Coming back to a philosophy book after 3 months (dead in the middle of a chapter as well) gives me the greatest whiplash

Socrates is absolutely dismantling Thrasymachus. Brutal.

In Bloom's commentary section on Book 1:
Starting 336b-354b
P. cannot let go of the idea that Justice must encompass protection of property

Bijna🥸💀

Thrasymachus kind of has a point lol

Vrijdag tentamen: als ik dan in Leiden kom door de sneeuw ❄️

Wow, feminist icon Socrates 💃🔥

I mean they talking about like how being a leader is like a craft and how it’s not for the sake of the leader but for the people or some shit

Finished:
Book 1
Book 2

Reading:
Commentary on Book 1

"Adeimantus and Glaucon Restate the Case for Injustice"

Thrasymachus' withdrawal is not accepted by Glaucon, he asks Socrates if he wants their common conviction that "right action in all circumstances is better than wrong" to be genuinely true or simply merely apparent, as his analogy-ridden, presumptuous discourse would thus far indicate.

Socrates places justice in a "highest category of goods"

What is justice? What does it mean to be just and unjust? Does the just man fare better is life than the unjust? In the later part of the first 40 pages, Thrasymachus seems to suggest that what we would consider unjust, that what is best for the stronger is what's morally right, is actually just in the sense that it is right (sounds retarded, I might be misremembering)

Glaucon is too agreeable.